Definition for Inflation:

• Distention of a part by a liquid or a gas.

Synonyms for Inflation:

• n.

  •
  • austerity,
  • buoyancy,
  • consumer confidence,
  • capitalist,
  • boom and bust,
  • deflation,
  • credit crunch,
  • Agronomics.
  •
  • flood,
  • swamp,
  • run,
  • pump up,
  • inflate,
  • blow up.
  •accumulation (noun)
  • collectings,
  • multi-plication,
  • build ups,
  • uppings,
  • multi-plications,
  • multi plications,
  • multi plication.
  •act (noun)
  • inflation.
  •augmentation (noun)
  • addition,
  • annex,
  • addendum,
  • swelling,
  • appendix,
  • amalgamation,
  • adjunct.
  •boom (noun)
  • up swing,
  • up swings,
  • up-surge,
  • up-surges,
  • up-turn,
  • up-swings,
  • up-turns,
  • up-swing,
  • up turns,
  • up surge,
  • up surges.
  •depression (noun)
  • hard times,
  • panic,
  • bottom out,
  • paralysis,
  • unemployment,
  • hard time,
  • over-production,
  • stagflation,
  • retrenchment,
  • deflations,
  • big trouble,
  • Paralyses,
  • overproduction,
  • retrenchments.
  •euphemism (noun)
  • pre tense,
  • pre-tense,
  • purisms,
  • pre tenses,
  • floridnesses.
  •exaggeration (noun)
  • exaltation,
  • extravagance,
  • overemphasis,
  • overemphasises,
  • overestimation,
  • elaboration,
  • tall story,
  • romance,
  • hogwash,
  • tall talk.
  •expansion (noun)
  • crescendo,
  • dilation,
  • amplification,
  • distension,
  • lengthening,
  • broadening,
  • thickening,
  • fattening,
  • engorgement,
  • burgeoning,
  • widening,
  • spreading,
  • development,
  • stretching.
  •expensiveness (noun)
  • dearness,
  • outrageousness,
  • richness,
  • expensiveness,
  • inflatedness,
  • unreasonableness,
  • pricelessness,
  • exorbitance,
  • costliness.
  •fatness (noun)
  • fatness,
  • fleshiness,
  • adiposity,
  • girth,
  • pudginess,
  • bulkiness,
  • tumidity,
  • plumpness,
  • heaviness,
  • rotundities,
  • Portliness,
  • rotundity,
  • flab,
  • stoutness.
  •ostentation (noun)
  • ostentation.
  •ostentatiousness (noun)
  • ostentatiousness.
  •pomposity (noun)
  • pomposity.
  •pompousness (noun)
  • pompousness.
  •pretentiousness (noun)
  • pretentiousness.
  •prosperity (noun)
  • opulence,
  • clover,
  • high on the hog,
  • the good life,
  • CLOVERS,
  • good time,
  • prosperousness,
  • wellbeing,
  • dos,
  • life of luxury,
  • successfulness,
  • good times.
  •recession (noun)
  • shakeout,
  • shakeouts,
  • bottom-out.
  •rise (noun)
  • piling ups,
  • pro-motion,
  • stacking ups,
  • pro motions,
  • intensifyings.
  •splashiness (noun)
  • splashiness.
  •tall talk (noun)
  • over-statement,
  • over statement,
  • tall-talk,
  • over-statements,
  • over statements.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • top off.
  •
  • boom.
  •
  • injection.
  •
  • deluge.
  •
  • charge.
  •commerce
  • economics.

Paraphrases for Inflation:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deflation, inflator, swelling, increase.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    inflationary, expansion, price, Prices.

Antonyms for Inflation:

• n.

  • act
    deflation.
  • increase, swelling
    compression, reduction, shrinkage, decrease, abridgment.
  • process
    disinflation.
  • Other antonyms:
    diffidence, bashfulness, shyness, sincerity, naturalness, meekness, modesty, humility, demureness, down-to-earthness, humbleness, timidity.

Hypernym for Inflation:

• n.

  • process
    cost-pull inflation, reflation, stagflation, demand-pull inflation.

Hyponym for Inflation:

• n.

  • act
    expansion, enlargement.
  • event
    blowup, detonation, explosion.
  • process
    economic process.